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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Husayn, the Saviour of Islam The Divinely Planned Measure for an Everlasting Guidance to Humanity It is quite obvious that the Divine Plan was to associate the lives of most of the leading apostles of God, with some tragic ends, for it is an acknowledged fact of the phenomena of human psychology that human sympathy always goes without fail, to the victims of an unprovoked aggression.

It was obviously destined to rouse the sympathy and the support of the whole human world for the Truth for which the martyrs had sacrificed their lives. It will be seen that most of the apostles of God and all the divinely chosen guides called the Imams, excepting the Twelfth one, were martyrs.

The story of Jesus is made attractive by its being narrated by the people of the Christian church associating it with the alleged crucifixion along with the other sufferings of his at the hands of the Jews. Muhammad, the Last Apostle of God, left this world having been poisoned by one of the Jewesses of Khaibar.

Lady Fatimah, the Lady of Light, the beloved daughter of the Holy Prophet, the wife of Ali the First Holy Imam, the mother of Hasan and Husayn the Second and the Third Imams, who had her advent to be a Model of the correct Islamic womanhood on the earth, was killed by the fall of the door of her abode, caused by some tyrant.

This Holy Lady suffered so much at the hands of the people after the departure of her father, the Holy Prophet that she once addressing the holy soul of her departed father, said: “O' Father dear! after thy departure, fell on me such calamities that if they had fallen on the bright days the days would have turned into dark nights.” Ali-al-Murtadha, the Vicegerent of the Holy Prophet, the First divinely chosen Imam, was martyred while in prayer in the Mosque at Kufa.

Hasan-al-Mujtaba, the first son of Ali and Fatimah, the first grandson of the Holy and the Second Holy Imam, was martyred by poison. He was made to leave this world vomiting blood with bits of his liver. Husayn Shaheed Karbala, the second son of Ali and Fatimah, the second grandson of the Holy Prophet and the Third Holy Imam, was butchered at Karbala along with his faithful devotees, by Yazid son of Mu’awiyyah, a very brief narration of whose great martyrdom forms the subject of this brief work.

Ali Zainul Abideen, the eldest son of Al-Husayn, the Third Imam, and himself the Fourth Imam was poisoned by the Umayyid Caliph Walid bin Abdul Malik.